Store – Alabama Holocaust Education Center https://ahecinfo.org Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:15:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ahecinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/A_Star-Logo-with-No-Background-e1583973771403-1-100x100.png Store – Alabama Holocaust Education Center https://ahecinfo.org 32 32 Word Smugglers: A Story of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto https://ahecinfo.org/product/word-smugglers-a-story-of-resistance-in-the-warsaw-ghetto/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:43:51 +0000 https://ahecinfo.org/?post_type=product&p=107946 The Oyneg Shabes underground archive is the largest collection of Jewish documentation detailing Jewish life under Nazi occupation. Directed and organized by Polish Jewish historian, teacher, and social aid worker Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the work of the Oyneg Shabes continued, even when hundreds of thousands of Jews-including members of the archive-were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka in the summer of 1942.

In her book, Word Smugglers: A Story of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto, Amy McDonald tells the story of the Oyneg Shabes archive from the perspectives of Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, Rachel Auerbach, Israel Lichtenstein, David Graber, and Nahum Grzywacz. It is a story about a courageous group of men, women, and young people who chose to resist and fight back against cruelty and fear. This group did not fight back with guns and weapons. They fought back with words, stories, and truth.

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]]> Determined to Survive: A Story of Survival and One Teacher’s Passion to Bring That Story to Life https://ahecinfo.org/product/determined-to-survive-a-story-of-survival-and-one-teachers-passion-to-bring-that-story-to-life/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:43:50 +0000 https://ahecinfo.org/?post_type=product&p=107944 With a passion for Holocaust education, author and public high school teacher, Amy McDonald, with Holocaust survivor, Max Steinmetz, provide a factual, yet gripping emotional account of one survivor amidst the enormous and complex history of the Holocaust.

Amy McDonald has written a unique memoir that encompasses two stories in one: the moving account of Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz’s survival and her own journey to research and document his story and to write it for him, her students, and posterity. It is an authentic, powerful narrative that contributes a much-needed fresh perspective to the crowded field of Holocaust memoirs.
–  Alexandra Zapruder, 2017, author of Salvaged Pages, Twenty-Six Seconds

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]]> My Father’s Blessing: A Story of Survival and Triumph https://ahecinfo.org/product/my-fathers-blessing/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:43:50 +0000 https://ahecinfo.org/?post_type=product&p=107945 by Ruth Scheuer Siegler with Ann M. Mollengarden 2011]]> This work recounts the Holocaust experience of Ruth Scheuer Siegler from her childhood in pre-Nazi Sinzenich, Germany through her incarceration in five different concentration camps. In the final chapters, Ruth describes her difficult journey to normalcy.

“For those who deny the events of the Holocaust, I am the proof,” Ruth writes, “Although this is my personal story, I know it is also part of the world’s history; perhaps I have contributed something of my past from which future generations may learn.”

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